Rita Góbi Company: Volitant

Rita Góbi Company: Volitant

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Rita Góbi's performance presents the intermediate state of "already not here" and "not there yet", by guiding us in the world of metamorphosis. For this production Dávid Szegő composed the music by using Morse code sounds and noise sounds, both acoustic and electronic – these are landmarks for the dance performance designed from minimalist tools which lead to a full theatrical presence.

"This is a solo of great discipline, flawless from start to finish, without an iota of idleness. It is concise and compact." (Csaba Králl, critic)

"It is hard to talk about Góbi’s performance without talking about her, as Rita Góbi and her performance are one and the same." (Márta Péter, Tánckritika.hu)

"Rita Góbi's explosive solo dance is filled with subtle associations: it is not hard to discover a futuristic interpretation, a kind of science-fiction remake of the Dying Swan: but instead of soft and lyrical tunes, it is performed to Dávid Szegő's harsh, repetitive and robotic noise sounds." (Tamás Halász, Színház)

Awards: Aerowaves Twenty18 - priority artist; Lábán award winner for the best contemporary dance performance in Hungary in the 2017 season; Special Award at Festival 10 Sentidos in Valencia for her solo dance Volitant.

Choreography and dance: Rita Góbi
Music: Dávid Szegő
Light design: Pavla Beranová (CZ)
Technical assistant: Zuzana Režná (CZ)
Costume design: Judit Sinkovics
Creative producer: Ágnes Bakk

Rita Góbi

is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher, who is continuously exploring the styles and languages of dance. Born in Novi Sad, Serbia, graduated at Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest. Rita started her career working with several Hungarian-based dance companies. In 2006 she founded Gobi Dance Company. Rita is also a dance teacher at Nemes Nagy Ágnes Art Vocational School.

Her choreographies are based on intuition and experimentation, but are precisely constructed by repetitive, miniature movements and grotesque, distorted elements that are slowly and consequently transforming into a different state. She is playing with her bodyparts, loves the minimalism, physicality of the body and its extremes.